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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
FALL HOUSEKEEPING
Valuable Hints on a Matter of Considera.
bic Interest to Women.


bic Interest to Women.
Late fall is the time when housekeep-
ers delight to house-clean for the WIN
ter. Pictures and curtains must be re-
moved and cleaned and although car
pets are not usually taken up they
must be thoroughly swept and the
woodwork well cleaned. All this may
be accomplished by clever woman
without disturbing the masculine COM
fort and to do this one room or two
connecting rooms are cleaned at time,
a day being needed for the work. The
afternoon previous all the pictures
should be taken down. carefully busted
and put into clean closet or another
room; all ornaments should also be re-
moved, and the curtains taken down
and Numbered if needed or we'll shaken
and folded away. Nothing else in the
room should be disturbed. The next
morning bright and early, after the
masculine fraternity have breakfasted
and departed, the regular work on the
room begins:
First, all the furniture must be care
fully busted and polished and put into
another room, Any large pieces can
be covered with sheet or blanket and
the shades busted and rolled up or re-
moved. If the room is covered with a
heavy carpet it should be first
sprinkled with dry saw-dust to collect
the dust. Open the windows wide and
sweep with the wind. When two
apartments, such as front and back
parlor, are cleaned together, almost all
of the dust will fly out the windows if
care is taken to sweep the way of the
wind. When the room is swept once
thoroughly, brush down the walls and
dust the woodwork. Sprinkle well
with damp salt for the second sweep
ing, and if possible use a softer broom.
The salt brightens and cleanses the
carpet and also gathers the fine dust.
After every corneris thoroughly swept,
the woodwork should be next washed
and the windows cleaned. After this
is done the furniture may be put back
in the room, the pictures hung up in
their places and the curtains put up if
ready, and by early afternoon two per-
sons at work should complete the room.
The woodwork of furniture which
has become dull or finger-marked may
be frightened by rubbing well with a
little sweet oil and soft flannel cloth.
IF bruised. several thicknesses of wet
paper should be placed on the bruise
and a warm iron on the paper. This
should be repeated until the heat and
moisture bring the wood to its proper
place; and then it should be carefully
polished with oil and flannel
White paint may be made almost as
new by cleaning with little whiting
sprinkled on the scrub cloth. The
whiting removes the thin outer coat of
yellow paint and should be used SPAR
ingly. especially if the paint is put on
thinly.
A little oxalic acid and fine whiting
will brighten up brass to almost its
original brilliancy.
Iron on stoves or CRATES if rusted,
should be rubbed in oil before applying
polish. M Y. Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
TORACCO Using.
Its Terrible Effects the Physical Sys-
tenn of the Young.

Its Terrible Effects on the Physical Sys.
tenn of the Young.
The terrible effect of tobacco on the
system of young persons is indicated
in many significant ways. After ex-
haustive examination by both the
French and the German Governments,
they have become satisfied that as a
matter of patriotism, politics and
economy, it is necessary for them to
suppress juvenile use of tobacco. This
they do vigorously, but not as a ques-
ton of moral reform. How much
more, then, should we grapple with
the evil
Let us remember that investigation
of court record showed that of 700
male conricts III an American prison,
600 hundred were there for crimes
committed under infuen ce of liquor,
and that five hundred of that 600 tes-
titled that use of tobacco was the be-
ginning Of their Incorporate habit.
General Grant died from tobacco
cancer, and Colfax from heart dis
ease induced by tobacco. A large num-
Der of the deaths from heart-disease
are from what honest and able ply
sicians pronounce tobacco hearts. :"
During the last few years the rejec-
ton of young men by life insurance
companies, because of unfitness from
tobacco heart-disease, is not infreqent.
The London Lancet says: No
smoker can be well man.
As a question of ''heredity, very
many of the terrible nervous diseases of
women spring from tobacco habits of
their fathers.
Few fathers, even among those who
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
What Alcohol Does.

1t is marvel of marvels that a
thoughtful man, one of intelligence,
knowing the nature of alcohol and its
effects on the stomach and its func-
tions, should ever recommend the use of
intoxicants for weak digestion. While
it is a fact that alcohol coagulates ami
nal albumen, precipitating it in worth
less flakes, and that itrenders the pep
sin in the gastric juice inert, or OF ne
cessity impairing this juice, one of the
most active components of which is
this pepsin, its effect on digestion must
be manifest. Now, since so much of
our food is albuminous--par particularly
that given to the sick-it is downright
cruelty to order these stimulants to
the sick; the well may bear this treat
ment for time but the sick should be
spared. The egg, SO useful to the sick
especially when simply 'beaten up"
with milk-is worthless when coagu-
lated with alcohol; bad enough when
this is done by heat The same re-
mark applies, also, to our meats, rich
in albumen, with still other substances,
though the vegetable albumen IS not
affected so much by the heat. Com
mon sense, science and facts are OPP
posed to the use of intoxicants, in sick
ness and health alike. The world
would be helped beyond our powers of
comprehension by the utter Danish
ment ofall intoxicants. -Mother's Mag
aztne.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21

that it disappeared beneath the heavy
old dressing-case that had stood in the
same position since first placed there
by the original proprietor. With its
handsomely-carved top which almost
reached the paneled ceiling, resting
upon its short, massive legs. it stood a
relic of by-gone days, piece of furni-
ture which lover of the antique would
have gazed, pondered aud COATED upon.
Mr. Beverly wanted that colIar-but-
ton, not because of its intrinsic value,
for that was very small, but simply
because-well, because he wanted it,
and being somewhat pressed for time,
down he went in frantic search for it.
Underneath the dressing-case he
plunged his arm and swept the floor
in undetermined manner. Then came
muff1ed exclamation as his hand
struck something that was evidently
not the lost collar-button, and the next
moment he drew from its dusty retreat
a small tin box.
"Well, / wonder what my ancient
uncle had stored away here" said
Clare, as he blew off the accumulated
dust. 1t was closed by simple catch,
and Clare opened it, disclosing to view
mass of papers.
Rent rolls and mortgages" said
Clare, as he turned them carelessly
over, and tossed the box upon the
dressing-case. Il wonder where that
collar-button went to-" And down he
went in his search for it again, and
strange to say this time he was success
full.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
WHISKY COURAGE.

The Saloon the Breeding Place of Crime
and the Stamping Ground OF Det,rc--
tives.
1t would scarcely be within the bonds
of truth to say that every man who.
drinks is fit for treason, or murder. or
arson, or theft, or in fact any of the
catalogue of crimes recognized by the
statutes; but when we say every Grim
inal is drinker of Intoxicating liquors.
we come very near the plain unvar-
nished truth. Take for instance the.
murderer How often is a murder COM
mitted when the murderer has not re-
Gently taken a drink or two." to
brace himself up for the occasion, if
the act was premeditated?
The mainstay of the Anarchist is the
flowing bowl. The saloon is the breed-
ing place of Anarchy, and the most
dangerous part of the Anarchists
ammunition is whisky and beer. 1t
matters little what aw man pre-,
pares himself to transgress, his last
act before committing the crime is to
''brace up at some convenient grog-
cry.
The election repeater is picked up at
saloon, and after a proclaiming
drink or two he walks up to the polls
according to the instructions given
him and boldly. commits the act at
which he would finch i'll his sober me-
ments.
The young man who starts out to
take in the town." just to post him
self for his journey through the rough
world, you know, fortifies himself at
the bar and goes on his perilous way
unblushingly and unhinchingly.
Nine criminals in ten who are cap.
tured by detectives are spotted i'm
some saloon. The saloon is the COM
mon stamping-ground of detectives
for they know that there they will
stand the best chance OF finding
"crooks" of all sorts.
The saloon is not only the breeding
place of crime, but it is the resort of
criminals of all grades. They look
upon drink as their mainstay at all
critical periods, and though it endan-
gers their courage by making them
reckless, they use it for the false cour-.
age which it gives them.-KdaeSas City
Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
COOKED FOOD FOR HOGS.
Facts and Figures Relating to Its Advan.
tages and Disadvantages.

Facts and Figures Relating to Its Advan.
tages and Disadvantages.
The question of whether it will pay
to cook food for swine has often been
asked and answered. and yet many do
not know whether it will be profitable
for them to adopt the plan or not.
This depends upon circumstances. As
a general proposition, there is no ques-
ton that it will pay. If it is asked
whether a reaper viii pay, no grain
farmer will hesitate TO say yes; but it
would not pay to buy reaper to cut
ten acres of wheat Neither would it
pay to buy the most economical appar-
atus for cooking to feed one lot of pigs.
or to carry farmer through pinch
in the corn supply. There is no more
rational doubt about the benefit of
cooking corn or corn-meal, as the food
of pigs, than as the food of man.
The exact gain per bushel in cook
ing corn for hogs will depend upon the
amount to be cooked, the apparatus to
cook it with, and the thoroughness
with which it is done. A large boiler,
making steam rapidly, will cook the
food for two hundred hogs for the same
daily expense as small boiler would
cook the food for thirty to fifty hogs.
In the one case there might be large
profit, in the other loss. We have
found gain of forty per cent. in feed
ing pigs upon cooked meal over that of
raw meal. But if we assume only a
gain of twenty-five per cent, then it
would save at least ten bushels of corn
per day in feeding two hundred pigs
OF two hundred pounds weight each.
Let us be understood. The pigs might
not consume quite ten bushels less; for
cooking, in rendering the food more
easily digested, enables the pig to take
more nutriment than when in less d.
gestible state; bat thirty bushels well
cooked would lay OH as much
fat or weight as forty bush
els raw. If the two hundred
pigs eat forty bushels per day, they
would gain at least twenty-five per
cent more. Now, it would take two
hours to cook forty bushels of corn
quite sof and this would require, in
six or eight-horse boiler, fifty
pounds of hard, or eighty pounds of
soft coal, costing, say thirty cents,
and extra labor thirty cents, making
the fuel and labor sixty cents, the ex-
ira production of pork one hundred
pounds per day. This is based upon
the use of an economical fiue boiler,
which generates steam rapidly and
cheaply. The cost of an engine and
watts for cooking it in would cost, say
5000; and it is easy to see that using
this on large scale would pay for it
self in less than three months. And
the engine would have a great value
on the farm for threshng, grinding,
saving, etc. Yet, as we said to begin
with, much depends upon how these
things are done. The best result
could not be reached with hogs ex-
posed to the cold in winter. 1t would
require a comfortable pen, where the
temperature could be kept even and
hogs at all times comfortable. Nd
ti0nal Lice Stock Journal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

THE new Belgian liquor law makes it
illegal to give credit tor drink.
ONE way to abolish poverty is to de-
post earnings in the savings bank in-
stead of the saloon.-M. Y World.
THE United Kingdom Alliance has
issued an appeal to the women of
Great Britain to join in efforts to Sc
cure the abolition of the traffic in
strong drink.
AN annual ceremony in British Co
lumbia is the pouring of key of
whisky on the grass in the presence of
the young Indians. The grass is
killed, and the Indians are told by the
missionary that they lay themselves
liable to the same fate if they become
addicted to drink.
DIR. HOWE, in his report on the
statistics of idiocy in Massachusetts,
states that the habits of three hundred
idiots having been learned, one hum
dred and fOrty-five were found to be
habitual drunkards, and large per
cent. of the rest are the children of
drunkards.
In the course of an address at a pro-
hibiticn meeting near Newburg, n. Y,
lately, Mrs. Emiline w. Burgess made
the statement that while walking along
West street, New York. she saw this
sign in large letters in the window of
saloon: For every boy who brings
in ten other boys will give as a re-
ward silver watch"
THE superintendent of the Schuyl-
kill Valley Division of the Reading
road has issued an order fOrbidding
the employees of the company,
whether on or off duty, 10 drink
liquor, and directing that any man
who is reported to have been seen
drinking even a single glass OF beer or
strong liquor shall be instantly dis
missed This is a good precedent for
other railway companies, and will, if
faithfully carried out, be suspicious
alike for the railway employees, the
stockholders, and the general public.
-.NotiOfaGL Temperance AdU0cote.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
HUMOROUS.

From a French album: "Woman
is q much tenderer creature than a
man. "A Cannibal. "-Boston Tran
script.
The merchant who doesn't believe
in an "ad'' is likely to know a good
deal about subtraction-fro IA his bank
account. = Washington Critic.
Don't Judge a mans character by
the Difference shown him. No one
ever saw a chimney sweep crowded off
the Observation-Disclosures Republican.
Miss Blinks-"W why do you marry
Tom Bloodgood? He is well on in
years Miss Jenks-"Yes. but he is
also well off in money" -Burljngtoaa
5Hee Press.
"A poet sent to an editor a contri-
button en- titled: "Why do live?" he
editNr answered: Because you sent
your contributions by mail instead of
bringing them in person. "-Northern
Eagle.
Before you call attention to the
fact that pig has no use for his tail,
please remember that you have two
buttons on the lower back of your coat
that don't button any thing. Bur7tng-
ton HGWkeye.
=" Doctor, can you tell me what
will prevent ny food from hurting
mep"- Nothing easier. Don't eat
it." "Ha! ha! very good joke"
"Not at all. Three dollars, please.
If you have any further trouble, come
again, and We'll try some other course. :"
Boston Transcript.
"A dignifed Eastern gentleman
travelling in California. was besieged
by a newsboy on the tral to buy some
of his papers. After beh g repeatedly
refused, the boy gazed Oh him for a
moment and said, blandly: give got
some picture papers for then as can t
read. "-Einaird AdUertiser.
q am sorry to make any COM
plant against neigbbor, but your
cat has killed my canary, and I nat
urally feel bad about it" But, my
dear sir, you needn't be alarmed. No
possible harm can come to the cat.
She won't eat the bird Very kind of
you, however, to mention the matter.
1t is always pleasant to receive the
sympathy of ones neighbors. Dos
ton Transcript.
George, near" said the girl, .'do
you ever drink any thing?" Yes, oc-
casionally," George reluctantly admit
ted. But, DEAR" she went on anx-
lously, 'what do you suppose papa
would say if he should discover that
the future husband of his only daugh-
ter. drankPn He discovered it this
morning" 20, George, and what did
he sayP" HE said: We'll, George,
my boy, don't care if do. IN 7.
Sun.
Little Arthur had been told by his
mother that he must never ask any one
for any thing. Mamma doesn't want
her little darl ng to become little beg
gar, she plaintively put it. Arthur
promised to heed the injunction. An
hour or two later his Uncle William
called. Remembering his relatives
generosity of heart and frequent be-
stowals of candy money, the little fell
low hesitatingly and timidly asked:
Mamma don't want me to be little
beggar boy. Do you ever give five
centses to little boys what don't ask
for emp Visions of coveted sweet
meats and nuts, neatly folded in pa
per bag, soon gladdened the little fel.
lows raptured sight, -Goldsa Dogs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.

She knows silk and satin and French words and
Latin, but nothing Of practical use,
And when With farmer, whose cows so alarm
her, she can't tell hen from a goose
Her NAV" has to call her and threaten to maui
her before she will get out OF bed;
And then she comes down very mad, in a gown,
with curl papers stuck on her head.
She'll romp at croquet and lawn tennis all day
without feeling weary at ALL
But somehow or other, if helping her mother,
she's tired and ready to fall.
Her ma mends her clothes and darns holes in
her hose and keeps her untidy room clean,
While she reads romances and in mirrors
glances or bangs the piano serene.
she cross to her brother and sister and mother.
ana often temper displays,
But sweetness she shows to her silly young
beaux, who think she's an angel always.
She chews gum and candy or any thing handy,
like pickles, slate-pencils and chalk,
And in French-heeled shoes, too little to use,
she painfully struggles to walk.
shes stylish and vain and looks with disdain on
housework as frightiuly low,
And though she can't make pie or cake,
she'll eat 'em-in pantries, you know.
She is so afraid she will die an old maid that
she thinks OF nothing but marriage,
When she, being free, will spend money with
glee, and dress and ride out in her carriage.
H G.. DOdqe, in G0odaLrS Sun
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
Contents of Stays Stomach.

In the stomach of a stag, which was
shot in the Duke of Portland's forest
at Langwell, Caithness-shire, there
were found when " gralloched the
brass ends of thirteen cartridges.
That the deer did not swallow them
loaded is a matter of certainty. Most
likely he picked them up one by one
on some part of the grouse-ground,
chewed off the papier-mache, and
then swallowed the cases or percus-
sion-cap portions, Cows frequently
swallow them in pasture lands, where
they have been thrown down by sports
men, and fatal results have sometimes
ensued. 1t is possible that a cows
digestive organs may be weaker than
those of a stag; and so gentlemen out
after cartridges, when they have oc-
casion to discharge their guns where
livestock of any kind is grazing,
might do well to retain the empty
shells till they come to the nearest
hedge or ditch.-&. James Gazette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Jennie June owns half of Cooley.

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Jennie June owns half OF Godeg's
Lody's Book.
Southey was maryelously industri-
Gus, as over one hundred publishei vol
umes testify.
Carl Schurz is said to be perma-
nently crippled BY the result of the
fall on the ice last winter, that was at
first believed to have caused only q
sprain.
Mile. Rhea, like other foreign actress
es. has declared her intentions to
become an American citizen, and has
taken out her first naturalization pa
pers.
Mrs. Bonanza Mackay Indignantly
denies that she is to have q cloak made
Of birds of paradise breasts. She says,
on the contrary, she does not approve
of Strengthening birds for ornament or
trimming.
The University Tinker and Ana-
tear's assistant is a new monthly de-
voted to amatuer persuits, and tells,
from an amateurs standpoint about
turning and lathe work, painting,
staining, etc.
in the middle of the fourteenth
century the booksellers of Paris were
commanded to keep books for hire.
Chevalier, the famous bibli ographer,
| found II list of books so circulated, and
the price of reaching them. The hire
of Bible was ten sous.
The young woman who aspires to
be q maid of honor to any Princess of
the royal family of Great Britain must
be able to ride well and to read music
at sight. Princess Beatrice's fayorite
pursuits are riding and trying over
new duets, and no one not an adept in
both arts can serve her as maid. -Bos-
ton transcript.
Max O'Rell's real name is Paul
Blouet. He wears single eyeglass
and is typical Frenchman, thirty-nine
years old, a brunette, with bright,
sparkling eyes and q lively, engaging
manner. He judges England by a
French standard; but although not
blind to her faults, he is very kind to
her virtues, and says, with Voltaire:
'1f could have chosen my birthplace,
Iwould have chosen England.
An interesting literary novelty is
promised in Texas. Mr.. James B.
Goode of Paris, in that State, has made
arrangements to publish all his poems
in volume of more than a thousand
pages, with many illustrations. 1t is
called "Gems of Thought" and will
contain over forty thousand verses of
poetry on about one thousand subjects,
with a great number of humorous
prose articles on his life, thoughts,
travels, and adventures as a reporter,
detective and gentleman of leisure.
Brother Goode has evidently discharged
a great variety of functions in life, and
has thought out an enormous lot of
golden gems
General William T. Bartlett was
among the captured at Petersburg.
Earlier in the war he had lost leg,
which he replaced with a patent cork
leg. While he was standing in the
crater a shot was heard to strike with
the peculiar thud known to those
who have been in action and the gem
eral was seen to totter and fall. A
mum Der of offic GERS and men Immediate
| ly lifted him, when he cried out, 'Put
ME any place where can sit down.
"But you are wounded, general aren't
you?" was the inquiry. "My leg is
shattered all to pieces" said he.
"Then you can't sit up" they urged,
you'll have to lie down." ooh, non
exclaimed the general, ''it's only my
cork leg that's sh attered" -Argonaut.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
PART III.

Naturally, Clare Beverly's sleep that
night was disturbed one, and he
awoke in the morning unrefreshed,
and in miserable humor.
After the completion of his toilet and
breakfast, he sat down and tried to
think it all over, but it was impossible.
Although by no fault of his, the fact
still remained that he stood ip the po-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21

Something ought to be done to dis
courage thewriters Of the real and only
American novel, sac
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
An Historic Warrant.

Among the Chauncy collection of
autographs recently dispersed by
Messrs. Sotheby, and which included
some manuscripts of Pope, there lay.
hidden and unnoticed, the original
warrant under which Bunyan was APP
pretended for that third and final i'm
prisonment of some six months dura-
ton, during which, according to his
latest biographer, he wrote the first
part of the Pilgrims Progress. 1t
fills half sheet of foolscap, and is
dated March 4, 1915, under the hands
and seals of twelve justices, six of
them. either then or in the Parliament
of 1878, members for county or bor-
ough, and three of whom had original
ly committed him for the previous
twelve years Imprisonment. The
sufferer is described as ''Tynker.n
which may indicate that he worked at
This trade while ministering, a fact
hitherto doubted. N Y Post
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Mrs. General Grant, the New
York World says. has been quietly
making arrangements to dispose OF her
house on Sixty-sixth street. It is
valuable property, but she wishes to
have its value in some form where she
can divide it among h rsons and give
them the benefit of it. One of her
projects in this direction was to ex-
change the property for three less val
liable ones, which her sons might oc-
cupy.